Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-04-05
A SHOCKING TRAGEDY. ON ACCOUNT 0
BUSINESS RELATIONS.
Tunired and Fifty Thousand Dol.
lar Blaze at GAINESVILLE, Tennessee.
VIOLENT sNowsToaMs GENERALL'
THROUGHOUT NEW ENGLAND.
The Republicans Claim an Easy Vic
tory in Cincinnati.
ESPECIAL TO THE sESrrKEL.l

CHICAGO, April 4.-The Consumers
Gaslight and Coke Company has noti-
fed its 500 employees that they must
submit to a reduction OF so and 20
cents per day, threatening, it is said,
to use coal oil unless the men comply.
The officials OF the company claim to
be unable to make a fair profit when
paying the present wages OF 81 80 and
81 for an eight-hour day. They wish
men to work twelve hours a day, at
an advance OF so and 40 cents. The
use of coal as fuel would dispense
with 450 of 500 employees. This after
noon the men, who are members OF
the knights of Labor Assemblies
7,44S and $3.50, met and determined
to insist upon the present scale of
hours and pay. A committee was ap-
pointed to inform the company of the
result OF the meeting.
Six hundred and fifty carpenters,
employed by various contractors and
ship owners throughout the city and
suburbs, will cease work tomorrow
morning, and building operations in
this county will be suspended indefi-
nitely. The leaders of the carpenters,
who, after a long struggle last Sum-
mer. failed to carry out their demands
for eight hours and an increase OF
wages, decided then to enc the con-
test, and think that now, when build
ing enterprise is reviying, and carpen-
tiers are wanted, the time has arrived
to make the employers yield. Three
moths ago the Council gave notice to
the employers that at the beginning OF
April the men would demand 35 cents
an hour, and eight hours to constitute
a days work. The wages have been
averaging % cents, and hours have
varied between nine and ten.
A SHOCKING Tragedy.
New ORLEANS, April A Times
Democrat special from Conishatta, La,
gives the following account OF a most
shocking tragedy, which took place
here this afternoon, resulting in the
death OF J. Henry Scheen and A. E.
Brown. Brown had become incensed
against NJ. A. Cockershain, a son-in-
law of Scheen, on account OF business
troubles and had been on the streets
in the afternoon inquring for Cocker
sham. Finding him at Scheen's
|, store, pistols were drawn and they be-
gan firing. Scheen received a shot
in the mouth, which, passing through,
broke his neck, causing instant death.
Brown received a shot in each arm,
and after promiscuous firing on both
) sides left the store. Young John
, Scheen seeing his father shot down,
seized a pistolbarrelled shotgun and
shot Brown, who ran about a hundred
| yards and expired.
A Destructive Confagration.
GAINESVILLE, Tenn, April 4.-To-
/ day this place suffered the most de-
! structive fire in its history, there being
four fires between 4 A. M. and 7 p. NJ,
and the losses aggregating $3.50, 900.
The first alarm vas from a shoe shop,
, between Second and Common street,
a strong wind sweeping the flames to
: Franklin street before it was checked.
AT IL A. NJ. the second alarm was sonnd-
ed the smoulding flames leaping up
again and several Of the largest build
ing were burned to the ground. At 3
P. NJ. an alarm was sounded for fire in
the Franklin Hotel, and at 7 p. NJ. in
Elders Opera House, but both were
extinguished by slight loss. First
street and a part OF Franklin street is
swept clean, "a building being burned.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
There was great excitement.
Heavy GaIes i'm New England.
BosroN, April AT an early hour
last night a violent snowstorm set in
very generally throughout New Eng
land a accompanied, particularlya long
the coast, by a heavy gale. Reports
from Gloucester and Provicetown, and
other prominent parts, indicate the
storm being the most sever for many
years, if not altogether without preced-
ent. Thirtv-six hours of wind main
an hour, and from eight inches to a
foot and a half of snow had fallen.
Many reports have been received OF
damage to buildings and trees from
the weight of snow. At Block Island
the gale was simply terrible.
Claim an Easy Victory.
CINCINNATI, April 4.--The weather
is pleasant, and the election is pro-
ceeding quietly, with a full vote. The
Republicans claim an easy victory, in
asmuch as the Democrats exhibit
great indifference as to the fate OF their
ticket in the strongest Democratic
wards. The labor men construe the
Democratic apathy into sympathy with
their party, and are predicting the
election OF their ticket. Many manu-
featuring establishments have closed
to enable the men to vote. The labor
ticket is reported to be receiving many
votes.